#darkness used for light

[the-faultofdaedalus]

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

#light mage about to unleash an absurd amount of infrared radiation wearing those heat suits volcanologists use: #of course many light mages dabble in dark magic as extra layers of protection #and vice versa - dark mages using light magic to light up their work spaces #though most specialize #sadly all theories of perpetual spell craft - light spell powering a dark spell #have been proven to not be feasable

[something-sweet-n-spicy]

#bookblr #literature #poem #poetry #books #love #quotes #this is what makes us girls #book quotes #fantasy #spilled truth #spilled poem #life quotes #life #dark acamedia #dark aesthetic #light academia #god bless you #nature core

[tiffanyachings]

Matching T-Shirts for You and Your Weirdly Codependent Cousin

based on this excellent post by @casgirl

#20% off if you get it with the cheap mustache rides shirt #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #paul tlt #field sketches #* #trivia section - i usually use dark brownish greys for cam and light cool greys for pal #(side note: i am BEGGING the sixth house to open their hearts and minds to more interesting colours) #so if you ever see them wearing sth that doesn’t align with this colour scheme (case in point: pal’s socks) #it’s because they stole it from each other #i feel like cam would be really into hiking boots (theyre waterproof and have good ankle support) so i gave her some #no notes on paul except that they have that ally beardsley enby swag. i know this in my heart

[girlbragging]

#femme fatale #female manipulator #femcel #girlblogging #lana del rey #lana unreleased #lizzy grant #black swan #cool girl #coquette #coquette dollete #coquette aesthetic #cinephile #cinema #cinemetography #natalie portman #this is what makes us girls #dark academia #girly aesthetic #arctic monkeys #alex turner #matty the 1975 #matty healy #old money #just girly things #lana is god #girlhood #female hysteria #dark aesthetic #light academia

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

“the point of kintsugi is to treat broken pieces and their repair as part of the history of an object”

David Mitchell // Hanif Abdurraqib // photo by @lakevida // @ashstfu // tiktok comment by @/muddafrigga // Miranda July // Pete Wentz // @jovialtorchlight // caption from Penny Reid [x]

#the amount I use to you unfinished in non-fob related web weaves should probably be embarrassing but isn't #it just.... yeah. please send my love to everyone above. that's it. #something something I've never gotten over anything in my life. idk #web weaving #Lu rambles #idk. just something about warm gold.... #like the lights of the kitchen in the only house that ever really felt like home when my parents were cooking and music played #punctuated by the clanking and sizzling of a meal being prepared in the early dark

[asleep-kat]

"Two halves."

#art #digital art #fanart #my art #digitalart #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #lmk fanart #monkie kid fanart #lmk macaque #lmk monkey king #lmk sun wukong #shadowpeach #The other title for this drawing was ''i wish we get more moments like these'' but i decided to just use this one #Also damn why are my art always so dark? #as in 'lighting' dark yk

[marzipanandminutiae]

on the flip side of that Toxic Skincare Obsession post: I’m tired of seeing sun protection presented as another frivolous, unnecessary product of the patriarchy

“I’m going to sit in the sun with wine and enjoy it and fuck anti-aging products like SPF!” I mean yes normalize and celebrate people- especially women -not looking 22 forever but also

Skin Cancer Is Bad Maybe?

#sun protection #skincare #you don't even have to use a tanning bed or lay out in the sun or whatever #neither of my parents have ever intentionally tanned; they just seldom wore sunscreen for decades #and they've both had pre-cancerous cells chemically burned off their faces #no such thing as a safe tan in the long run. it's not that you should stress yourself out about it #but you SHOULD take reasonable precautions #(and yes dark-skinned people too. Black people tend to have worse outcomes with melanoma because doctors trained on light skin #may not catch it soon enough) #Everyone! Needs! Sun Protection! #It is not a frivolous beauty thing!

[learnelle]

My favourite spot in Dublin 🖤

#Still absolutely horrified at what happened to this city last week. Those people do not represent us #studyblr #cottagecore #studyspo #langblr #aesthetic #romantic academia #light acadmeia #dark academia #Dublin #Ireland #garden core #books & libraries

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts dream drop distance #khddd #sora #riku #nightmare's end #mirage split #my gif #i was going to write up a whole thing in the tags about my thoughts on this keyblade #but i just know it'll be an incoherent essay because i can't properly articulate my thoughts #the x-blade must be forged through a clash of light and darkness #but i find it so highly significant that sora and riku can create their own keyblade which is so unheard of #this keyblade isn't created with a clash but rather through harmony and balance #not with conflict but with understanding and connection and love #and i always felt as though that's how the x-blade SHOULD be forged. that master xehanort went about it all wrong #because balance and connections are such important themes in these games #it has two handles and looks so regal when combined. all of the shapes feel reminiscent of the x-blade too #it shines so brilliantly with both sora and riku's symbols. the heart and crown which is the iconic logo for the entire series #also the way stained glass is always used to represent hearts. it's so significant! #and yeah the paupu fruit keychain is its own thing to unpack #okay so i ended up writing something anyway but there's still so much more #i just really hope we get to see more of this in future games because it would be shocking if it was nothing more than a cool combo attack

[foxscarf]

26.3.24

it's time for one more big effort! I'm determined to get this all done now.

(and I'm in love with my vintage desk I bought second hand only last week; plus my gran's blanket is keeping me cosy. So I'm beginning to feel I'll be alright!)

37/100 days of productivity

#:') 💪🤞✨ #wish me luck friends #hoping motivation strikes us all tonight! #my work #studyblr #100 days of productivity #dark academia #light academia #studyblr aesthetic #desk space #motivation #cosy #spring #gradblr #phdblr #phd life

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

#sketch #my art #bnha #shigaraki tomura #tenko shimura #all for one #midoriya izuku #bnha manga spoilers #only after I finished basically polishing this sketch did I notice how it's basically dark and light mode #also the first one is basically a redraw of illustration from vol 11 #I know that translation of Tenko's words is different in official but eh #fanart #I've kind of recovered from recent chapters #and I was analysing those chapters all morning #I'm still thinking but otherwise the chapters are so good #also did you notice that AFO actually talked about how his other him didn't use that 'last thing' yet and that was in ch 410 #and in ch 419 he did so it's real and it's still sad #but still AFO was never hiding it enough #from Tomura maybe but we as readers actually saw his plans play out #in any case I'm still just sitting with those two Izuku and Tenko interaction chapters #I waited long enough #and if you don't count AFO's return Izuku DID save Tenko and it's so interesting #since he now has to save his OTHER origin that was in ch 237 taught to kill whatever he wants #Tenko and Tomura both had 'origins' chapters and for now we only worked with 235 and 236 #and even if Izuku helped with the start of 237 there's still AFO #in any case it was a hard week #also the second thing actually had them holding hands #and then I was like 'but at that point Izuku's hands are gone oh no' #and it was just Tenko holding air where the hand was destroyed #in any case that scene.

[aquaticpal]

Kids were demanding pancake art. It's been a while, let's go!

Oh god I think I overdid it how am I gonna flip her

Omg I did it lmao this was definitely way too much

#zelda #totk #pancake art #light dragon #my pancakes #sorry I let the kids use up all the dark blue before I realized I needed it for her eyes #would you still love me if I was a pancake

[happyheidi]

beautiful book covers. (x)

#so gorgeous #I love them!! #that first one??? aaaaaa #cottagecore #light academia aesthetic #dark academia books #idk if it’s any use in tagging my posts atm but doing it anyway #cus it feels so weird not to #books #dark cottagecore #dark academia aesthetic #book covers #dead poets society #classic academia

[boudoirmood]

Autumn food 🍁

#autumn food #autumn #gilmore girls #autumn girl #fall #fall girl #girl blogger #this is a girlblog #cinnamon girl #coffee girl #fall food #this is what makes us girls #dark academia #light academia #fall aesthetic #girl interrupted

[ovenproofowl]

His Dark Materials is a franchise that tackles so many branches of physics and even creates a universe where the main course of study is experimental theology which is all about identifying and explaining dark matter while also adding dimensions to string theory, the multiverse theory, and the very concept of the human soul. At the same time, it aggressively calls out the problem with the state being controlled by the church, how people are condemned for being different and religious fearmongering stops the chance at growth both on an individual and a societal scale. It’s a franchise where the heroes of the story are two children who aren’t allowed to know the prophecy they’re a part of, who save the world unwittingly simply by doing what they believe to be right. Meanwhile, the person who thought he was the hero all along, the person who rallied an army from multiple universes to FIGHT. GOD. HIMSELF. is ultimately consumed by his own ego and forced to take a back seat when he realises he’s just one tiny piece of a much larger story that’s true heart is his own daugher. The child he abandoned, the child he didn’t know or care to know how to look after. It’s a franchise about finding love even when your biological family abandon you, it’s about looking evil in the eye and seeing your own mother, it’s about good and evil not being black and white but instead a complex and cruel mixture of both. It’s about the two worst people you know banding together at the last second to save their daughter with their final breaths. It’s about exploration and learning how to grow through experience, it’s about kindness being shared across the multiverse, exchanging stories with strangers and saving the whole world by doing something perfectly ordinary and receiving no reward.

Oh, and it’s also a franchise rich with fantasy, with giant talking polar bears, witches and ghosts, angels and daemons, and a mammal-like species from another world that travels exclusively on roller skates. 

And it fucking. rocks.

#his dark materials #phillip pullman #hdm #lyra belacqua #will parry #marisa coulter #lord asriel #mary malone #northern lights #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #i feel like i didn't even scrape the surface. the universe created here has fascinated me since i was a kid #but as i've gotten older i've really learned to appreciate all the scientific theories that are expanded upon using fantasy and philosophy #as someone who has a weird obsession with theoretical physics hdm scratches a very specific itch 😂 #anyway that's my little rant over. i'm done now.

[somerabbitholes]

found this heavily annotated beautiful beautiful copy at a used books’ store

#booklr #books #vintage #used books #annotations #academia aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #study arsthetic #studysthetics #poetry #literature #mumbai #book blog #old books #bookstore #bookshelf #t s eliot